Squashed commit of the following:

commit e384ea949de84ee4c7a816b25b3a219e8a60aa98
Author: Jonathan Utter <jutter@rsmart.com>
Date:   Tue Dec 17 15:18:40 2013 -0700

    Re-added a line of code to check an IP's status. This was removed accidentally

commit 6a177fc4d92b2f8202d9938872f167f8c0f35978
Merge: 92d47e0 8f2580c
Author: Jonathan Utter <jutter@rsmart.com>
Date:   Tue Dec 17 14:32:42 2013 -0700

    Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/development' into development

    * upstream/development:
      Updates related to trying to remove an FP from an Award.
      Updates related to trying to remove an FP from an Award.
      Had to create a specialized step definition for a particular scenario.
      Removed some dummy code that wasn't supposed to be there.
      Removal of the $ips global variable from the step definitions for funding awards. Fixes to a verification step definition.

    Conflicts:
    	features/step_definitions/awards/award_fund.rb

commit 92d47e071b11365101c24188154e765345c0ca78
Author: Jonathan Utter <jutter@rsmart.com>
Date:   Tue Dec 17 14:24:10 2013 -0700

    created a new scenario to check for the generation of new ip's.

commit 047677ce9a8cce1b27b414e6fe585ff9fbd76e18
Author: Jonathan Utter <jutter@rsmart.com>
Date:   Mon Dec 16 10:25:17 2013 -0700

    New scenario to check for updated ip status, post award attachment.

commit 66471821aded95a3ebdcae397f8d2541a405facb
Merge: f2ebc57 4d132a8
Author: Jonathan Utter <jutter@rsmart.com>
Date:   Fri Dec 13 13:26:49 2013 -0700

    Merge branch 'development' of github.com:aheward/kuality-coeus into development

    * 'development' of github.com:aheward/kuality-coeus:
      Code refactoring to move a method out of ProposalDevelopment Object and into a shared module.

commit f2ebc575982d267c9e0cbfcfd5422944304e9793
Merge: aa7b492 8326629
Author: Jonathan Utter <jutter@rsmart.com>
Date:   Fri Dec 13 11:50:04 2013 -0700

    removed all instances of 'initiate' where the context was a user creating something

commit aa7b492660540d2443c5d7aefb01c5c48f4085a2
Author: Jonathan Utter <jutter@rsmart.com>
Date:   Fri Dec 13 11:12:40 2013 -0700

    Modification: Created new 'Award Modifer creates an award../..

commit 1c4003c3ab49e5895cf0118758cda80ce2145a03
Merge: 79f6c46 c673904
Author: Jonathan Utter <jutter@rsmart.com>
Date:   Fri Dec 13 11:05:18 2013 -0700

    fixed the last two scenarios in 'adding_funding_proposals_to_an_award.feature

commit 79f6c46228e4b59efbdaa27ed355a69444872493
Author: Jonathan Utter <jutter@rsmart.com>
Date:   Fri Dec 13 10:12:03 2013 -0700

    created new feature file for linking ip to awards

commit 4e58fb01f67b6c49dbe9fd9d2995db96045c4e5b
Author: Jonathan Utter <jutter@rsmart.com>
Date:   Fri Dec 13 09:57:23 2013 -0700

    deleted the award_fund.feature file